"When it first came into
office Bush Co. wanted something from the Taliban, and it wasn't
Osama's head. They wanted to run a gas pipeline from the fields
around the Caspian sea across Afghanistan to Pakistan and into
India. This enormous project would have benefited many of their
corporate donors, including Unocal, Halliburton, and Enron."

Cui bono

Bradford comments; What the Bush administration
is terrified of is that the 9/11 commission would look into the
fact that during the first part of his term in office, he was
funding the Taliban. Now folks, you have to consider this very
carefully, I mean this: Gas prices are set by Saudi's we ushered
out of our country when we were attacked on 9/11. A whole plane
load of Bush, Osama friendlies, and family members were given
planes to get out of the country without questioning. Less than
a day later we had all the pieces of the puzzle, as if it was
all there in the first place, minus a bunch of Saudi's from the
family of Bin Laden. The Saudi's still fund Osama. Therefore
our gas prices pay for the nerver ending war on terror. Here
we have created the perfect Orwellian perpetual motion war machine.
Literally Eureka!

Please try to think this through. Our Gas
prices go up. Bush and the Carlyle group along with Haliburton
profit. Money goes into the coffers of the Saudi's. Bush deletes
massive information on the Saudi connection in reports and certainly
doesn't want anyone to look at what they were doing before 9/11
for funding the Taliban that payed for the bombs and strippers
the night on 9/10. Since most of the hijackers were Saudi, we
wonder, well certainly the prime target should have been funded
Saudi's. But Saudi's are in cahoots with Bush Daddy and Cheney.
They have found a way for the United States, with great SUV's
to:

A.) make Americans pay for the salaries of
Haliburton to the tune of well over 200 billion dollars. We have
the entire Iraq nation on Enron bookkeeping standards.

B.) Our Gas prices go to pay for Terrorism
through Saudi funding. This is a wonderful conveyer belt and
the 9/11 commission will never get to the issues. White Wash,
White Wash and White Wash.

"Richard Clarke is right
in his claims that the Bush administration dropped the ball on
pursuing Bin Laden, but he is being too generous in saying it
was due to a preoccupation with "cold war" priorities.
It was a preoccupation with Enron and they dropped the ball on
purpose.

I don't buy the whole Bush
and Cheney didn't know Osama was a threat story. Sorry, but this
bunch always knows what's going on. Intelligence is their thing.
Remember Daddy was a CIA chief. These people don't do something
because they missed it; everything they do, or don't do, is calculated.

First, one must remember that
everything the Bush/Cheney crowd do is guided by one simple principle:
secure as much of the world's oil and gas as possible for exploitation
by their corporate donors. They are, after all, all oil men --
even Rice who has a Chevron super tanker named after her.

When it first came into office
Bush Co. wanted something from the Taliban, and it wasn't Osama's
head. They wanted to run a gas pipeline from the fields around
the Caspian sea across Afghanistan to Pakistan and into India.
This enormous project would have benefited many of their corporate
donors, including Unocal, Halliburton, and Enron. Enron had a
$3 billion investment in the Dabhol power plant, near Bombay
on India's west coast which desperately needed a source of cheap
natural gas to succeed. An amazing article "The Enron-Cheney-Taliban
Connection?" by Ron Callari of the Albion Monitor lays it
all out.

To get their pipeline, Bush
and Cheney not only had to ignore the pesky problem of Osama
who was a welcome guest of the Taliban, they ACTIVELY sucked
up to the extreme Islamic fundamentalists that ruled the country.
They gave them $43 million in aid during those eight months of
"neglect." See Robert Sheer's "Bush's Faustian
Deal With the Taliban" published May 22, 2001 in the Los
Angeles Times.

When the secret negotiations
for the pipeline failed to go their way, Bush Co. reportedly
threatened the Taliban with a rain of bombs if they insisted
on no for an answer.

Now the rest of how this probably
played out is not pleasant to hear, especially if you lost a
friend or family member on 9/11. And this is the reason, Bush
and Cheney have blocked the investigations at every turn and
controlled them tightly when they couldn't be stopped--an effort
that continues quite successfully to this day.

When the Taliban were threatened
with a rain of bombs, they decided to go ahead with the ultimate
terrorist act, which they may have been planning for a while
anyway. They were true Islamic nut jobs, not open to getting
rich off the infidels' pipeline (especially when their requests
for additional development for Afghanistan were turned down).
The intelligence community got wind of the coming attacks over
the summer, and Bush and Cheney, knowing that their threatened
rain of bombs would cheered by the America public after an attack,
decided to let it go ahead. They did nothing to beef up airline
security. They held their first high level anti-terrorist meeting
on September 4, when they knew it was too late to do anything
meaningful to stop the attacks.

I think it's very misleading
to convey the idea (as most in the mainstream media have done)
that no one saw it coming. Ashcroft saw it coming; he stopped
flying commercial jets in July. Top Pentagon brass saw it coming
down to the exact time. See: [www.btinternet.com] It has a copy of a Newsweek article,
dated Sept. 24 issue (2001), that contains the following sentence:
"On Sept. 10, NEWSWEEK has learned, a group of top Pentagon
officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning,
apparently because of security concerns." This would indicate
that they knew, more or less, exactly when the attacks were going
to happen. I also remember reading that the NSA was monitoring
Atta's phone calls with Al-Qaeda leaders overseas. I never believed
the claim that these conversations were not translated in time.
This intelligence was a top priority. And it would explain why
the Pentagon brass suddenly knew it was a bad idea to fly the
next morning.

When the attacks were launched,
somehow the normal, expected air defense failed to materialize;
nothing was done to thwart the attacks until they were complete.

And our man in Afghanistan,
who once negotiated for Unocal, is now running the show trying
to revive the pipeline.

Iraq, too, is about oil. Fighting
terrorism, as Clark and many other have said, has nothing to
do with it.

This assessment also explains
why Cheney has fought so hard to keep his energy meetings secret.
He wants to keep a tight lid on all they were doing to help Enron
which was in serious trouble even as the administration took
office. The revelation that they stopped pursuing the world's
most dangerous terrorists because of a deal they wanted to make
with the Taliban to help Enron would not help them in the polls,
too say the least.

But don't expect any of this
scenario to be suggested by the mainstream media. They know,
at least the ones in the know, that it's far better for the president
if we are made to believe his gang is incompetent, rather than
treasonous.

And if the 9/11 commission
fails to pursue the pipeline connection, as seems the case so
far, it will go down in the history books as a pathetic joke."

This to me is closer to a possibility than
some of the other theories I have heard. I sense an explosion
is about to happen on this side of the world in more ways than
one. Irregardless of whether one likes or dislikes Mr. Clinton,
I like, I have a funny feeling he is about to burst onto the
scene like never before. Too much is at stake. I think these
papers he sent from his archives are about to hitthe news and
boy is it going to be something.

Clinton warned and gave advice but Bush
and Republicans hated Clinton as poison. Perhaps they can start
to eat some of the poison that they generated in a far more dangerous
world.

I think basically this is what is about to
happen right now: swollowing their own poison. It seems to me
they thought they would rise above and be above any kind of recrimination.
But that's not the way it is working out and thank goodeness.
The more they hide or try to stop the people from testifying
truthfully, as in the case of the medical bill, the more the
American people are getting suspicious. Before it seemed as if
they held him above being a politician but now the fabrications
are seeping out of the woodwork. I sense a few emboldened employees
coming forward real soon. The cards are crumbling, or at least
it seems to me.

"Craig Unger: As you
say, air space was completely restricted up through 9/13. And
on that day, the first flight took off from Tampa, Fl., to Lexington.
I found at least eight airplanes that stopped in 12 American
cities. This was a massive operation. They picked up roughly
140 Saudis, roughly two dozen members of the bin Laden family,
and they simply were not interrogated or interviewed seriously.
One of the basic rules in any criminal investigation is that
even in the most commonplace murder, you interview the friends
and relatives of the perpetrator. That doesn't mean they're guilty,
of course. It's just to acquire information. In this case, flying
required White House approval. And we know they got White House
approval because nothing could fly then. In addition, Richard
Clarke told me so. He was the counter-terrorism czar in the situation
room at the White House, and he said that he was party to these
conversations. He said that it was OK so long as they were vetted
by the FBI.

The problem is that they were
not vetted by the FBI. There was no serious investigation. I
was able to obtain the passenger list for four of the planes.
We have to presume innocence on the part of most people on the
planes, but we do know that one person in particular is highly
suspicious, and that is Prince Ahmed bin Salman, who was a very
high-ranking member of the royal family and was said to have
been a link between the royal family and al-Qaeda who may have
had foreknowledge of 9/11."

holderlin wrote:

Gas prices are set by Saudi's we ushered
out of our country when we were attacked on 9/11. A whole plane
load of Bush, Osama friendlies, and family members were given
planes to get out of the country without questioning. Less than
a day later we had all the pieces of the puzzle, as if it was
all there in the first place, minus a bunch of Saudi's from the
family of Bin Laden. The Saudi's still fund Osama. Therefore
our gas prices pay for the nerver ending war on terror. Here
we have created the perfect Orwellian perpetual motion war machine.
Literally Eureka!

Please try to think this through. Our Gas
prices go up. Bush and the Carlyle group along with Haliburton
profit. Money goes into the coffers of the Saudi's. Bush deletes
massive information on the Saudi connection in reports and certainly
doesn't want anyone to look at what they were doing before 9/11
for funding the Taliban that payed for the bombs and strippers
the night on 9/10. Since most of the hijackers were Saudi, we
wonder, well certainly the prime target should have been funded
Saudi's. But Saudi's are in cahoots with Bush Daddy and Cheney.

The con artist who suckers people into a shell
game counts on his ability to divert the eye of the bettor in
order to win.

So it is that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
have launched a sham war on terror without targeting the chief
financier and backer of terrorism, Saudi Arabia.

In his book, "House of Bush, House of
Saud," journalist Craig Unger lays out a compelling case
that the Bush family is so inextricably bound up with the Saudi
royal family that it could not hold them responsible for the
role that many Saudi Arabians played in the 9/11 day of terror.

The shell game Bush played meant diverting
the American public's attention to Iraq, which had no apparent
role in 9/11. Although 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi, bin
Laden is a member of one of the wealthiest families in Saudi
Arabia, and the Saudis financed bin Laden, Bush managed to convince
most Americans that the majority of 9/11 hijackers were Iraqi
and that Saddam Hussein played a key role in the attack. That's
how a political shell game works. Only in this case, thousands
of lives were lost in a con job in which the American people
were played for suckers by their own leadership.

Unger begins his book with an incident that
Greg Palast first uncovered in late 2001. Why did the Bush Cartel
allow 140 Saudi citizens, including members of the bin Laden
family, to be flown out of the United States, without questioning,
at a time when U.S. airspace was closed and when they might have
had information useful in unraveling the crime of 9/11?

It's a good question, and the answers are
shocking.

In essence, the Bush Cartel has sold Americans
a bill of goods. They have diverted our attention from the major
nation state supporting Al-Qaeda because they don't want to attack
their own business partners, including the Saudi who bailed Harken
Oil out. He's the same guy that was deeply involved with BCCI,
the corrupt bank that Poppy Bush and many of his cohorts were
associated with. There are plenty more like him. Just read Unger's
book.

It is hard to put your arms around the gravity
of Bush's betrayal of our nation. Americans just don't want to
believe that anyone sitting in the Oval Office, even if unelected,
could be a traitor to the interests of his own country.

But, when it comes to Saudi Arabia, the Bush
family's business interests and personal relationships take precedence
over our interests as a nation.

Remember, the Bush Cartel censored 28 pages
in Congress's 9/11 reports. The subject of those 28 pages was
reportedly the Saudi financing of terrorist front organizations
and "charities."

Unger, a respected journalist, concludes that
Bush must believe that "the billionaire Saudi royals are
somehow more worthy of the government's concern than are the
victims of 9/11."